A senior security source in Sanaa revealed on Tuesday Yemen’s security apparatus has finalized its investigation on 19 elements of Iranian spy cells and are ready to refer the case to the country’s special criminal prosecutor in security cases, and then to court, Kuwait’s Al Seyassah daily reported on January 15, 2013.
He explained the accused are 8 Iranian members of the Revolutionary Guards, with one working as a dentist in an Iranian hospital in Sanaa. Yemen officials closed down this hospital back in 2010. Three others are Lebanese and Syrian, who were arrested in an apartment south of Sanaa. One member is an Iraqi who led another cell and the remaining members are from Yemen.
“The Iranian hospital was the base of this spy cells,” he said, adding the accused perpetrators will be prosecuted by Interpol.
This source reiterated these individuals have delivered important confessions, including Iran’s plans to divide Yemen into three states. This source also said those arrested received military and other training from Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and Iran provided them huge amounts of money through merchants and banks in Sanaa.